Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Uncle Sam is a spendthrift, a miser, a coward, a bully, a fat capitalist, a lean prude. But that he should be pictured as a seductive satyr piping innocent nymphs down the primrose path is hard to believe. Now, however, Senora Doloras Longoria of Mexico has returned to the land of bandits and bull-fights, after a sojourn in "New York, Chicago, and other American cities, where she has made keen observation of American morals", and gives the gravest of warnings to senoritas who might be tempted to copy their unprincipled northern sisters...
Ruth Elder was next, leaving New York Oct. 11 with George Haldeman. They came down in the ocean off the Azores, and were so fortunate as to land beside the Dutch steamship Barendrecht. They were rescued as their plane caught fire and sank...
...Italy, and Jugoslavia join, making the trip from Udine, Italy, to Vienna on schedule in spite of the fact that we were advised not to undertake it by the Italian authorities. The plane had dual controls and one of its features is that it handles so easily you could land on a dime. As a matter of fact, one time coming down unexpectedly into a bora, as the strong winds of northern Italy are called, we landed within sixty feet. The Yankee Doodle carries ten gallons of gasoline and that gives it a range of about 475 miles...
Last week, citizens respectful of the law paid income tax. The Federal Reserve Banks throughout the obedient land arranged ledgers to dodge the accounting strain. In one day, in Manhattan alone, the District Bank turned over $2,000,000,000 without rippling the glassy calm of the money market. Treasury certificates for $550,000,000 were redeemed; $560,000,000 of fresh Government obligations were sold to the prudent. $450,000,000 income tax was collected, and "easy" money "ruled'' because banks had the use of money represented by income tax checks for several days (before return...
Primanerliebe. Two German youths, irked by family and college discipline, commit suicide. That is all. Filmed in Germany, directed by Robert Land, it lasts almost an hour and is well worth looking at. The characters are so capably cast, the acting is so good that one's eyes seem to hear real voices, the click of heels in corridors, the clink of beer mugs, the faint scratch of a pen. These German actors have a serious, slow, almost stubborn way of performing which is utterly convincing. The shooting of the scenes from striking angles, the sudden change of-tempo...